New coach will focus on basics

International experience gives Air Force veteran Curren a different aspect on coaching

1:10 AM,
Jun. 14, 2014

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While he was in the Air Force, Chase Curren taught a team of Belgian men how to play American football.

The language barrier is one thing, but teaching grown men the basics of football brought Curren, a 2004 Marion Harding grad, into a new method of coaching. He played the game himself while coaching in the brand-new Belgian American Football League.

"It was a small team, about 16 players," he said. "It was in a small town about the size of Waldo. ...